The new OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Outlook 2021 with a focus on the COVID-19 pandemic sheds light on the enourmous scientific and technological achievements the global crisis response has produced. But it also warns of possible long-term consequences for innovation systems in times of rising government debts and competing demands for financial resources.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 14 December edition:
- School’s Out: Experimental Evidence on Limiting Learning Loss Using “Low-Tech” in a Pandemic, Noam Angrist, Peter Bergman, and Moitshepi Matsheng
- COVID and the Economic Importance of In-Person K-12 Schooling, David A. Green, Ali Karimirad, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, and Henry E. Siu
- Financial Fragility during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Robert L. Clark, Annamaria Lusardi, and Olivia S. Mitchell
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 7 December edition:
- Did COVID-19 Change Life Insurance Offerings?, Timothy F. Harris, Aaron Yelowitz, and Charles J. Courtemanche
- Stay-at-Home Orders in a Fiscal Union, Mario J. Crucini and Oscar O’Flaherty
- Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines, Michael Kremer, Jonathan D. Levin, and Christopher M. Snyder
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 30 November edition:
- Revenue Collapses and the Consumption of Small Business Owners in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Olivia S. Kim, Jonathan A. Parker, and Antoinette Schoar
- Mandated and Voluntary Social Distancing During The COVID-19 Epidemic: A Review, Sumedha Gupta, Kosali I. Simon, and Coady Wing
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 16 November edition:
- Optimal Vaccine Subsidies for Endemic and Epidemic Diseases, Matthew Goodkin-Gold, Michael Kremer, Christopher M. Snyder, and Heidi L. Williams
- How New Fed Corporate Bond Programs Dampened the Financial Accelerator in the Covid-19 Recession, Michael D. Bordo and John V. Duca
- Building an Epidemiology of Happiness, John F. Helliwell, David Gyarmati, Craig Joyce, and Heather Orpana
- Searching, Recalls, and Tightness: An Interim Report on the COVID Labor Market, Eliza Forsythe, Lisa B. Kahn, Fabian Lange, and David G. Wiczer
- Sizing up Corporate Restructuring in the COVID Crisis, Robin Greenwood, Benjamin Iverson, and David Thesmar
- Pandemics, Global Supply Chains, and Local Labor Demand: Evidence from 100 Million Posted Jobs in China, Hanming Fang, Chunmian Ge, Hanwei Huang, and Hongbin Li
- Maximize Utility subject to R≤1: A Simple Price-Theory Approach to Covid-19 Lockdown and Reopening Policy, Eric Budish
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 9 November edition:
- COVID-19 Surgical Abortion Restriction Did Not Reduce Visits to Abortion Clinics, Martin Andersen, Sylvia Bryan, and David Slusky
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in Los Angeles, Amalia R. Miller, Carmit Segal, and Melissa K. Spencer
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Group Testing with Homophily
A new working paper by Louis-Marie Harpedanne on designing test pools taking into account homophily: Encompassing small potential clusters in test pools makes it possible to overcome the usual information-theoretic limits of group testing (which are based upon an implicit homogeneity assumption) and to identify asymptomatic carriers who would be misclassified as negatives even by exhaustive individual testing.
Targeting High-Contact Individuals
Can interventions targeting a minority of highly connected individuals effectively limit the transmission of SARS-CoV-2? Gianluca Manzo and Arnout van de Rijt analyzed population survey data finding that a small proportion of individuals reports a very high frequency of close-range contacts. Their simulations show that targeting hubs where high numbers of close-range contacts occure can robustly improve containment.
Latest COVID-research – NBER Working Papers
This thread lists COVID-related papers recently published in the Working Papers series of the National Bureau of Economic Research (United States).
From the 2 November edition:
- Nursing Home Quality, COVID-19 Deaths, and Excess Mortality, Christopher J. Cronin and William N. Evans
- Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: It Is Not Who You Teach, but How You Teach, George Orlov, Douglas McKee, James Berry, Austin Boyle, Thomas DiCiccio, Tyler Ransom, Alex Rees-Jones, and Jörg Stoye
- Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests, Andrew Atkeson, Michael C. Droste, Michael Mina, and James H. Stock
NOTE: The NBER Working Papers series publishes early findings of ongoing research to encourage discussion and collect suggestions for revisions. Papers are neither peer reviewed nor endorsed by the NBER Board of directors.
Avoiding another lockdown by separating the elderly from the young?
Based on their ongoing research and simulations, Andrea Ichino, Carlo Favero and Aldo Rustichini argue in a recent op-ed that targeted measures to minimize close contact between the elderly and the young could bring down significantly the number of infections among higher age groups. This in turn could save lives, prevent the health care system from collapse and allow more economic activity to continue. Proposed measures include separated use of public transport, more home working arrangements for higher age groups and time slots reserved for elderly people at supermarktes.